Red alert, bond sighted

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[OPEN] Red alert, bond sighted

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Gaucho The Wildfire Posts: 1,004

Deceased atk: 8.5 | def: 11.5 | dam: 8

Stallion :: Pegasus :: 17.2 :: 12 HP: 85 | Buff: PINNACLE

Mara :: Black Mamba Snake :: Paralyze & Vorsa :: Plain Zephyr :: Phoenix Odd

#12

01-31-2016, 07:57 PM

& I'd bring you further roses, but it does you no good.

Gaucho felt both a swell of pride, of hasty fear, and overwhelming love for Ampere as she chasitized Tae and Grusha.

Their children.

She had said the words out loud, and now they rang in his ears and flooded his mind with the implications. Every time her words were punctuated by the snapping of her teeth, Gaucho's ears flicked forward slightly as if equally compelled by the force of her words. The fear he felt was only an guess at what the girls must be feeling. Only a few times had Gaucho ever felt afraid of Ampere, and rarely was it due to threat of violence. However as a Mother, Ampere was quite the sight to behold. The Wildfire's bone-pierced muzzle moved lower slightly, exhaling against Ampere's neck in an added sign of support, as he bobbed his antlered skull. In this punishment, the two were a unified front.

Unified truly, for perhaps the first time.

Gaucho had seen Zekle and Mesec out of the corner of his blue-flecked gaze, but hadn't bothered to pay them much mind. For now, his thoughts were focused on the girls and their scolding and smoldering Mother. In another minute or so, when the twins' had learned their lessons and offered an appropriate apology, Gaucho would go to the lightning marked boy and -

NO

Whatever amusement or mild love which might have glinted in Gaucho's eyes was gone. As soon as the word left Mesec's lips, Gaucho's muscles hardened and he strode forward, likely bumping into Ampere as he went, for his wings were already unfurling. Gaucho had been around war long enough to know the sound of panic and fear, and he thought he heard it just then in Mesec's one syllable.

RUN

But of course Gaucho didn't. Instead, his gaze surveyed the area, mentally placing those around him. For now, it seemed Zero was in the immediate vicinity of whatever danger Mesec thought was around. With Ampere and the twins behind him, it would only be his son who was -

The beast. Gaucho saw it now, in a way that he hadn't back in the Labyrinth. That this creature was Mesec didn't even register in Gaucho's primitive mind - for now it was merely a threat. Had he taken the time to piece things together - Mesec's warning and the creatures arrival - he might have known that this was unintentional, and that whatever was about to happen next was not Mesec's conscious doing. But he didn't. His family was here - nearly all of them in fact - and he would let no harm come to them.

"ZERO" The Wildfire's voice was a tidal-wave of force as he exploded forward. He aimed to place himself directly between warg-mesec and the one-winged boy. Vorsa scanned the sky, desperately looking for Lucius, hoping her fellow zephyr could shed some insight into just what exactly was going on. Fire bloomed higher on Gaucho's wings and then rushed forward in a powerful wave towards warg-mesec, hoping to burn some sense into the demi-god, or at the very least, prevent him from moving forward towards his family.

"MESEC." He growled from behind the fire-wall, doubting that saying the stallion's name would do any good.

[tl;dr, Gaucho goes from "ilu amp", to SAVE ZERO AND KILL MESEC.]

Gaucho

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